Blog deleted….im pretty gutted

  • Hello there,
    I noticed there was a way that I could upgrade my wordpress installation within fantastico which is a service provided by my web host to easilly create databases (it does it all for you) so i clicked upgrade and thought everything would be fine…..its not…it did not work at all…..in the process everything seems to be gone, I even tried deleting my blog starting again and trying to put in my back ups…that does not work iether.
    Anyway….there is another back up …I had instructions when i did the upgrade they are
    if you don’t have SSH access, ask support to help you:
    – Remove the directory /home/therive/public_html/blog
    – Untar/home/therive/fantastico_backups/blog.backup.1088446041.tgz
    – Empty the database therive_wrdp1
    – Import the file /home/therive/public_html/blog/backup.sql into the database therive_wrdp1
    So at least I know at some point I may get al my posts back but I have no idea at all where i am supposed to start….I know there is a tar file sitting on my webspace but I dont actually know what a tar file is never mind how to untar it……can you give me a few pointers…..im at my wits end ??
    Alistair

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  • I would go nuts at the hosting co, and send their support dept in to fix things.
    Who is your host with this flawed fantastico ?

    Thread Starter aliferste

    (@aliferste)

    It is a company called I web, they are quite good. I have sent them an email…..with a bit of luck I should be able to reinstall a back up that was created……..hopefully anyway…..
    Alistair

    If you end up having to do this yourself, you can untar the archive from a shell command line so:
    ‘tar -xvzf ‘ and then the name of the backup tarfile.
    Somewhere in there, from the look of your instructions, will be a file for that backup period named ‘backup.sql’. After you’ve emptied your database, by whatever means, log into mysql and do this:
    ‘SOURCE backup.sql;’
    That should restore your database to wherever it was when the backup utility last ran. I have no idea what you should do about your wordpress files themselves; they should be recreated when you untar the backup tarfile, though.

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